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The Temple of Blindness: an Investigation of the Inca Shrine of Ancocagua Andean Past Volume 5 Article 9 1998 The eT mple of Blindness: An Investigation of the Inca Shrine of Ancocagua Johan Reinhard The Mountain Institute, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Reinhard, Johan (1998) "The eT mple of Blindness: An Investigation of the Inca Shrine of Ancocagua," Andean Past: Vol. 5 , Article 9. Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past/vol5/iss1/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Andean Past by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE TEMPLE OF BLINDNESS: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INCA SHRINE OF ANCOCAGUA Johan Reinhard The Mountain Institute, Franklin, West Virginia and The Field Museum o/Natural.History, Chicago "In the district of Canas there was a temple which they When I first began searching for clues to called Ancocagua: there they made sacrifices according to their blindness." the location of Ancocagua in the historical ac- Pedro Cieza de Le6n1 counts, I did not find its name directly associ- ated with a temple. However, it does appear in historical records from the province of Ancocagua must be one of the most enig- Canas. In a list of communities dating to 1575 matic Inca sites mentioned in early colonial one called Ancocaua3 is listed next to Copo- documents. The renowned Spanish chroni- raque and Yauri (in Hatun Canas), as it was in cler, Cieza de Leon (1977 [1554]:107), listed it as the fourth most important temple in the lists prepared in 1583, 1599, and 1812 (Glave Inca empire. Yet, there is no description of 1987:64-66) (Table 1; Figure 1).4 Today, the the site, nor of its exact location, and this natu- towns called Coporaque and Yauri are 12 Ian rally gives 'rise to some b~ic questions. apart and in the same wide valley, about 140 Where was it? Why was it so important? Ian. (in a straight line) to the southeast of Cusco in the province of Espinar. Because the Given its significance, why did so few of the communities noted are listed in geographical Spanish writers refer to it? The only way one sequence, the settlemept of Ancocagua must could hope to answer these questions w~s by not have been far from them. In addition, by gathering together the historical references and by investigating !!Ie region in which the site 1581 the people of Ancocagua had been "re- might be found. duced" (brought together) into a landholding unit that was a part of the community of Co- Beginning with Cieza de Leon's (1977 poraque '(Aparicio 1982:96). It consisted of 275 people and 28 tribute-paying Indians, but [1554]:107, 153) account, we know that an the Indians would have presumably kept their ancient ("muy antiguo") oracle was highly venerated at Ancocagua, and that the temple landholdings outside Coporaque proper. was somewhere in the province of Hatun The reason for the "reduction" is said to Canas.2 Aside from the Incas, people from all have been that the Ancocagua Indians poured around came to worship at the temple. Ani- melted gold down the throat of the Spaniard to mals and humans were sacrificed and gold whom they owed tribute. Those responsible was offered to the deity there. Cie:zade Leon ran off to other provinces while the remainder (ibid: 107) heard that gold valued at 30,000 pesos was taken from the temple by the Span- iard Diego Rodriguez Elemosin. Even more 3 "Ancocagua" is also spelled "Ancocaua", "Acon- treasure was found, and there were reports that cagua", "Anccocahua", "Anccoccahua", and "Hanco- gold and silver were buried by the Incas in cagua" . places still undiscovered. 4 The orthography of Quechua tenns has varied through the years and depends upon the author. Thus, one can find such spellings as AncocagualAncocaua, I My translation. See Cieza de Le6n (1984 [1553]: MullucaguaIMulluccahua, Suyckutambo/Sucuitambo, 223). etc. I have maintained the use oftenns that appeared to me to be the best lrnown ITomthe literature and have 2 Hatun in Quechua means "large" or "principal" indicated alternative spellings of some words because (GonzalezHolguin1989[1608]:158). they appear in various documents and on maps. ANDEAN PAST 5 (1998):89-108. ANDEAN PAST 5 (1998) -90 settled in Coporaque (Celestino 1982 [1792]: We know today that the area south of Co- 78). Whether this is fact or legend, in the late poraque is the source of the Apurimac River. 1700s Ancocagua was listed as one of eight That this was also known by the Spaniards is groups (ayllus) fonning Coporaque (Hinojosa further demonstrated by a list of rivers pre- 1987:232). It was described as having once sented in 1792 by Celestino (1982:75). Ac- had its own parish (curato) (i.e., prior to the cording to him, the Apurimac River has its incident with the Spaniard), but in 1792 it origin in Vilafro Lake, which is 12 kIn west of fonned part of Coporaque (Celestino 1982 the town of Cailloma (Caylloma) where the' [1792]:78). It is suggestive that when the lists list begins, and this is, in fact, close to its true follow a clear north-to-south progression origin. Only through the use of modem tech- throughout, as in those of 1575 and 1583 nology has the source of the Apurimac's fur- (Glave 1987:64, 66), Ancocagua occurs last. thest tributary been traced to the foot of the This indicates that Ancocagua originally bor- mountain Mismi ca. 30 kIn to the south of dered Coporaque to the south. Cailloma (McIntyre 1991:20).6 The Acon- cagua River was first in the list of Celestino, Support for this hypothesis comes from an reportedly flowing into the Apurimac after it examination of the rivers noted in historical passed through a steep gorge below Cailloma. sources. In a document of 1586, the Apurimac Of the rivers that follow, all those that I could River is stated to have its origin in a village locateon the 1:100,000seriesmaps7 produced called Ancocaua, which lay on the road from by fern's Instituto Geognifico Nacional8 occur the city of Arequipa (i.e., to Cusco) (Fomee downstream from the AconcagualApurimac 1965 [1586]:28). Many tributaries to the confluence (moving £Tomsouth to north) in south of Coporaque contribute to the origin of the same order as they do in the list. the Apurimac River, and the road between Arequipa and Cusco passes through this area I could not find a river with the name (Agurto 1987:42;' Alicia Quirita, personal Aconcagua on any map, but it is probably one communication 1994). Thus, it is possible of the rivers that originate near the town of that the place called Ancocaua was the temple Suyckutambo (Sucuitambo) or between it and of that name.5 the pass of Apacheta Rayada some eight km distant (Figure 1). The Safiu River, which follows the Aconcagua River in the list, flows into the Apurimac just below the Inca site of Mauccallacta, approximately 20 kIn south of 5 According to a 1:100,000 map (Peru, Instituto Coporaque. The next river listed, the Quero, Geografico Militar, Carta Nacional, Cailloma, Hoja 31- flows in near Coporaque. These rivers both s), there is a small settlement with the name of Ancco- have their origins in the lakes in the mountains cahua seven kIn to the south of the town of Cailloma above Cailloma near the town of Suycku- (Caylloma), at the origin .of the Unculle River (Figure tambo (4,800 m). This is at a divide where 1). This settlement is not situated on a high point, and, rivers flow in all directions. The majority, therefore, does not fit the description of the site of An- cocagua. No ruins of significance have been noted in 6 The Incas were aware that Mismi Mountain, on which the area (Alicia Quirita, personal communication 1994). In any event, this Anccocahua is not located in the they made important ritual offerings (Ross 1980), straddles the continental divide, and that rivers start province of Hatun Canas and thus is an unlikely candi- date for the temple. However, it is possible that this flowing to the Pacific Ocean &om its western slopes, settlement was named after the temple or the land and and also &om only a few km to the west of Vila&o Lake. people associated with it. There is a mountain called Anccoccahua (see the IGM 1:100,000 map Callalli, Hoja 32-t), but it is 100 7 These include the Cailloma 31-s, Velille 30-s, Con- kIn to the southeast of Coporaque in the province of doroma 31-t, and Yauri 30-t sheets. Collagua. Thus it is too far away to have been the site of the temple, even if ruins exist on the mountain. 8 Formerly the Instituto Geognifico Militar. 91- Reinhard: Inca Shrine at Ancocagua however, eventually sweep around to merge fied temple. After some time the rebels ran with the Apurimac. Although we do not know out of water and were about to surrender. which place the Incas considered to be the ex- However, it snowed heavily one night, and act source of the Apurimac, it seems reason- thus they were able to continue their resistance able to assume they would have perceived it to (ibid.:293). be in the region south of Coporaque. The Spaniards asked members of the Inca Aside from Inca ruins leading south from nobility who had accompanied them how the Coporaque along the Apurimac River as far as Incas had captured Ancocagua when they bat- the archaeological site of Maria Fortaleza tled the people living there some years before.
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